Baby Name Pondering

Soleil Moon Frye as Punky Brewster I was feeling a bit nostalgic so watched a few episodes of ' Punky Brewster ' today for a fu...

Elodie Yung as Jinx in ' G.I. Joe: Retaliation '. I've been debating whether to do Jinx as a name or not. Maybe it's ju...

  It's a little hard to decide how to start this post. Adair (pronounced ah-DARE) may seem like a quiet, innocuous little name, bu...

Wisteria is a beautiful but rarely used floral name that could be due for resurrection. 2011 was the first time in over 30 years tha...

King Willem-Alexander of The Netherlands and wife Queen Máxima at the inauguration ceremony   Seems that Max names for girls have been ...

Eva Mendes plays Romina in ' The Place Beyond The Pines ', opposite Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper If you like your girls name...

Jewelled Headband available at Etsy Giselle is a name that oozes femininity in my eyes. Like the gazelle that it sounds so similar to, ...

One of the benefits of having a name blog is that suddenly your friends are also keeping their eyes and ears open for interesting names to s...

Sugar sweet names worked (well, kind of) in ' Wreck It Ralph ' - why not some minty fresh names? When you think of mint, you thi...

Pixel a.k.a. Pixie A couple of months ago my brother and his wife bought a gorgeous new pet cat, who they named Pixel and nicknamed Pixi...

Imogen Poots Imogen is a recent crush for me. I think one of the things that pushed it from being a slight interest to being a major int...

The latest Wizard of Oz sequel - called 'Dorothy of Oz' - is due out in 2013 Dorothy will be voiced by ' Glee ' star Lea...

Up and coming young actress Ophelia Lovibond Today's name is inspired by a recent trip to Ikea. You know how everything has a name, ...

Calliope is one of the prettiest (in my opinion) names from Greek Mythology. Pronounced kah-LY-oh-pee, she was one of the nine Muses that w...

Nathan Fillion as Captain Mal Reynolds in " Firefly" With surnames on the upswing, I'm surprised that Fillion has gone un...

'Queen Zenobia's Last Look Upon Palmyra', painting by Herbert Gustave Schmalz I've seen this name mentioned lately and f...

 Latest news is Sam Claflin will play Finnick Odair Admittedly, I was trying to avoid writing about any of the names from 'T...

No, not Gerri Halliwell aka Ginger Spice. The other Halliwells - Prue, Piper, Phoebe and Paige, the magical sisters from the TV series '...

Caspian is a name that I have loved ever since reading "Prince Caspian" by C.S. Lewis when I was young. At the time, I thought tha...

The Dance , Henri Matisse, 1910 Say the name Matisse and most people immediately associate it with the French artist Henri Matisse. Mat...